Beirut Stories

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In the vibrant, chaotic city of Beirut, a place where the Mediterranean's waves collided with crumbling shores, a boy named Johny was born. His home was nestled deep in the heart of the city, surrounded by the echoes of honking cars, the smell of shawarma and freshly baked mankoushe from street vendors, and the perpetual buzz of life. Beirut, with its mix of old and new, of resilience and devastation, was a place where dreams were often born but rarely fulfilled. For Johny, those dreams seemed distant, stolen by circumstances no child should have to face. His life, like the city he loved, was one of survival and loss, and the battles he fought came far too early.

Interested in traveling and discovering all kinds of cultures and places, Caleb decides to go on an exchange program to Beirut and spend a semester there. He directly surrounds himself with both international students and citizens. A short while into his trip, Caleb is introduced to the lives, the cultures, the traditions and the politics of the place by a friend that he starts spending most of his time with. Caleb becomes influenced by the beautiful soul he met and starts looking at the world in a new way. New chapter expected every five days (at most).

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Hindsight is 20/20. Let's hope future generations will recover the joy of life lost by so many...

Beirut, 2016. Karim is twenty-seven, overworked at a dead-end start-up, underpaid, and restless. He spends his days shuttling between a cramped apartment he shares with his soon-to-be-married sister and the city's chaotic streets, where Uber rides and late-night shawarma eat away at his salary. By night, he sneaks lovers past closed doors and wonders whether love is even possible in a city split between tradition and rebellion. Karim drifts through long workdays, late-night taxis, and secret desires, until a chance connection with a quiet driver pulls him into a web of temptation, power, and hidden lives. A Declaration of Love is a bold, intoxicating portrait of Beirut's contradictions. Its glamour and grit, its freedom and repression-and of one man caught between passion and self-preservation.

Being a keen traveler, who documents the lives of women encountered, visiting Beirut in Lebanon last year was an eye-opener. Over 250,000 African and South East Asian women, are employed in the country as domestic maids. They have no employment or legal protection and instead are governed by their employers, under the kafala system. This lead them to be strictly controlled by employers, who often treat them harshly and they are exposed to physical and psychological abuse, in more extreme cases, sexual violence, torture and murder. The following are based on my observations while in Beirut.

Will you be the hummus to my pita bread? [In no way am I shaming my culture and I love it very much <3 And it's not just girl problems it's just all things relatable with being Lebanese/Arab of any kind <3]

A fire smouldering for days at Beirut port has revived painful memories of the explosion that devastated the Lebanese capital in 2020, with the government struggling to find a way to extinguish it as the second anniversary of the blast approaches, Reuters reports.

A gem on the Mediterranean, an inspiration for a thinker and a gypsy dancer for night lovers.Beirut seems forever doomed for the blessing of beauty and charm.

The dream of a captive, based on the imprisonment of Brian Keenan in Beirut in 1985. (Another English Assignment)